Answering to numerous requests from our forum readers, we have posted seven German tank models that will appear in Stalingrad to our Art/Image Gallery section. Featured are various models of Pz-III and Pz-IV and Pz-VI Tiger. Complete list of vehicles of Stalingrad will be up on this site really soon.
Also worth checking out is the Photo Archive section, where we have posted a couple of new authentic photos:
In the first chapter of Stalingrad, Germans try to implement new Hitler plan called Operation "Braunschweig", which presupposed the advance of two German groups against the southern areas of the USSR. Motorized avant-garde of the 6th army commanded by General Paulus made first contact with the advance troops of the Stalingrad front on July 1942, which is traditionally considered to be the beginning of the Stalingrad battle.
Second chapter of Stalingrad is dedicated to first difficulties that Germans have faced in the Stalingrad campaign. Initial plan of the assault on Caucasus region supposed that weak defense of Stalingrad could be crushed by 6th Army under command of Gen. Paulus alone. However, by the end of 1942 Wehrmacht HQ had to reinforce attacking troops with 4th tank army under command of Gen.-Colonel von Goth. City defenses should have been neutralized by two simultaneous strikes from opposite directions.
Both these episodes have player in command of Wehrmacht forces. There’s a historical reference on these events at the "Cronicles of the Battle" section. Our image gallery has also been updated with new pictures, featuring new actual photos from the Stalingrad battlefield.
Our image gallery has been updated with six new screenshots snapped off the latest build of Stalingrad. These show off German bomber He-111, tank battle near Verhne-Buzinovka village, pedestrian cross at the Stalingrad railway station, German tanks and motorized infantry passing through the farm, German experimental anti-tank SP-gun Panzerselbstfahrlafette V "Sturer Emil" and Messerschmitt Bf-109F-4 fighter plane.
Our "Files" section has been updated with Windows desktop wallpaper showing ablazing Department Store located at the Fallen Fighters square and soviet tank T-70. If you feel like immersing into the Stalingrad battle, download these wallpapers at once:
There's been some new screens uploaded to our Gallery today, showing heavy tank KV-1 captured by Germans, He-111 bomber providing support for Wehrmacht land forces, soviet forces attacking encircled 6th Army and Romanian Wehrmacht forces fighting at the Stalingrad outskirts.
We are proud to announce that we have got together a huge (9-part) panoramic screenshot snapped off one of the in-game missions of Stalingrad. It gives a clue on how it would look like in the center of ruined city. Screenshot reveals city architecture, which we carefully reconstructed by archive photos and aerial photography, and also shows key buildings, such as Railway Station, Museum of the Stalingrad defense, the Fountain and Department Store. The screenshot comes with a detailed legend describing key locations
Grab the screenshot from our "Download" section (5.4Mb)
We have updated our gallery once
again and added a slew of hot new screenshots snapped off the latest
build of Stalingrad. Featured today are the battery of Soviet field
rocket launchers BM-8-24 backed up by light tanks and group of
marines; soviet tank T34 and infantry under artillery fire; Soviet
tractor vehicle Komsomolets towing captured Wehrmacht AA-gun
Flak-88; Russian bombers pursuing Wehrmacht forces; Small group of
Wehrmacht tanks attacking Soviet heavy tank KV-1 and shot-down
'Messerschmitt' Bf-109F-4, the plane of the officer of a staff of
Wehrmacht squadron JG-3 'Udet' that has crashed into the ground.
Gameguru Mania has published interview with
Stalingrad's game designer Peter Prohorenko. Four new screenshots
from the Stalingrad inside. Read the full version here.
We
have updated our
gallery with a bunch of new screenshots showing Stalingrad's
airplanes. Thumbnails below present german bombers He-111 of the
27th bomber squadron, and their opponents - soviet planes DB-3F.
Note that these are shown off both in summer and winter camouflage.
Adrenaline Vault has posted detailed interview
with Stalingrad's game designer Peter Prohorenko. Several new
screenshots from the Stalingrad inside. Read the full version here.
We've updated the "Download"
section with flicks showing death animations of tanks in Stalingrad.
The first to die is Soviet tank T-34/76 (Uralmash factory). Trailers
are available for downloading in Bink
Video (1.84 Mb) and DivX
3.11 (1.38 Mb) versions.
Also up for downloading today are fragments of a documentary
movie showing captured Wehrmaht field-marshal Paulus with his
generals. It was shot by Soviet journalists just days after
capturing 6th Wehrmacht Army HQ staff.. We also have those fragments
in DivX
3.11 (0.9 Mb) and Bink
Video (2 Mb) formats.
There's been two publications on
Stalingrad posted recently at Australian and Portugal sites, GameBiz and PTGamers,
respectively. Gamebiz has arranged an second interview with Petr Prohorenko, which has
interesting tidbits on his day-to-day duties as a Salingrad
designerm. PTGamers scored a lengthy material devoted to the team behind
Stalingrad, that is Petr Prohorenko and DTF Games director
Alexander Fedorov. First interview comes in English flavor, while
the second one is available in Portugal only. Those of you who can't
read this language may check out new screenshots posted along with
interviews.
Our has been updated with eight new screenshots snapped off
the latest build of Stalingrad. These show off: 'guard mortas
attack german forces'; 'tank battle at a khutor'; 'German and Soviet
t-34s encounter'; 'Read Army tank forces breach Romanian defenses';
'Gromki settlement re-taken by Soviet forces'; 'Soviet Katiusha
missile launchers fire upon german positions at the Mamaev Hill';
'tanks commanded by Gen. Kravchenko force their way to the crossings
on river Don. Soon, main supply line for the 6th Army will be
disrupted soon'.
We've updated the "Download"
section once more with flicks showing death animations of tanks in
Stalingrad. There are four new videos in "Downloads"
section today. They are PzKpfw III Ausf M and T-34/76 MEAV
(Maintenance and Evacuation Armored Vehicle) "Red Sormovo" Plant.
Videos are available for downloading in Bink Video and DivX 3.11
versions. To watch Bink movies you don't need any codecs.
Achtung all Stalingrad fans! We're finally ready to announce
pan-European deal for Stalingrad! The game will be published by
Black Bean Games in Europe, and release date is set to March 2005.
The official press-release can be found below. Stay tuned for more
info!
And of course, Stalingrad team wishes you and your families Merry
Christmas!!!
Black Bean signs pan-European deal for
"Stalingrad"
Varese, 15th December, 2004. Black Bean is proud to announce the
signing of a pan-European publishing deal for "Stalingrad" on the PC
format. The deal was signed with the Moscow based publisher 1C
Company. "Stalingrad" is being developed by DTF Games and uses a
modified version of the game engine used in the successful game
"Blitzkrieg", which was noted for the realism of its combat scenes.
The battle for Stalingrad was fought out during the harsh Russian
winter between 19th August 1942 and 2nd February 1943, and is
generally considered to be one of the turning points of World War
II.
"The developers have gained access to a wealth of historical
documents and have made great use of these to ensure an accurate
reconstruction of the city and the events of the battle", said
Davide Bordegoni, Product Manager. "The player can choose between
two detailed campaigns, taking command of the Wehrmacht as they
launch repeated attacks in order to conquer the city, or lead the
Red Army in their desperate, but ultimately successful, defence".
"We are delighted with the quality and commercial potential of
"Stalingrad", added Marco Minoli, Marketing Manager of Black Bean,
"and we are looking forward to a strong partnership with 1C Company
moving forward".
"Stalingrad" will be released on PC CD.Rom in March 2005, in
English, German, French, Spanish & Italian and will feature
extra content both on the CD and in the accompanying booklet.
For further information about the game and Press Materials,
please visit http://www.blackbeangames.com/ or http://www.stalingrad-game.com/.
"We are very delighted that not only Russian gamers, but people
all across Europe will have a chance to play Stalingrad. 1C is
really satsified of this deal with Black Bean. We are very happy to
work with such an enthusiastic and professional partner", said
Nikolay Baryshnikov, International Sales Director at 1C Company.
"Stalingrad is the game that provides authentic historical
experience and intense gameplay. I'm pretty sure it will appeal to
all WW II game fans", Baryshnikov adds.
Black Bean is the games label of Lago Srl, which is part of the
Leader Group. Leader SpA has been the leading independent
distributor in Italy since it started business in 1984. Leader is
based in Gazzada (Varese) which is situated 30 miles north of Milan
in northern Italy.
Black Bean philosophy is to focus on a wide range of games genre
leveraging on an friendly gameplay, additional contents and fully
localised products in order to give the player an immersive and
addictive gaming experience.
About 1C Company 1C Company specializes in distribution,
publishing and development of interactive entertainment products and
business software. Founded in 1991 1C has become the leading Russian
company publishing and distributing computer games in the former
USSR. 1C Company is widely acknowledged as a game developer and has
several internal studios. Internal developments of 1C include Konung
Legends of the North, IL-2 Sturmovik, IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten
Battles, Aces Expansion Pack and Wartime Command. 1C Company works
as a publisher and producer with over 20 leading Russian independent
development studios and has produced over 50 projects for PC, Xbox
and PS2. More information about the company is available at http://int.games.1c.ru/.
About DTF Games DTF Games is a subsidiary of the DTF company,
which was established in 1999. The first enterprise pulled off by
the company was an online magazine called "The Daily Telefrag" that
was originally dedicated to computer games. Three years later, The
Daily Telefrag changed its strategy and became an ultimate web
resource on Russian gaming industry as a business. As such, DTF
organized the first Russian Game Developers Conference (also known
as KRI) which took place in Moscow in 2003, and since then held
annually. Running the only serious resource on gaming industry, DTF
company became extremely proficient in game marketing and inner
mechanisms of the industry, which led the staff to a decision that
they were ready to try developing a game themselves. So DTF started
gaming subsidiary DTF Games, aimed at developing high-quality
computer games. The first project successfully completed by DTF
Games is historical real-time strategy game "Stalingrad".
Black Bean and DTF Games are proud
to announce that Great Battles of World War II: Stalingrad
has gone gold!
The game will be released in Europe in March 2005 in a special
edition box containing a 64 page full color manual and an
interactive war encyclopedia dedicated to Stalingrad battle.
"Great Battles of World War II: Stalingrad " is a historical
military realtime strategy game. It is based upon one of the pitched
battles of World War II, the Battle of Stalingrad. The plot of the
game unfolds during the period of July 1942 - January 1943 and tells
the story of one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II.
Featuring two detailed campaigns, the game will let the player take
command over Wehrmacht and lead the German forces into the city,
then switch to the Red Army and liberate the Soviet stronghold from
the occupants and obliterate the 6th Army under the command of Gen.
Paulus. In contrast to many other RTS games out there, each mission
in "Great Battles of World War II: Stalingrad" is created with
historical authenticity in mind and with reference to the actual
place and time to real events that took place during the war.
Besides, the missions are created in such a way that campaigns give
an authentic picture of events at the theatre of war operations.
The Battle of Stalingrad provokes interest even today, and it is
still a matter of heated debates. The city of Stalingrad will remain
in the memory of humankind as the symbol of bitterness and
suffering, and also as the place of great courage.
Finally we have prepared an English demo version of the
Stalingrad, our first foray into the RTS genre. Packed in a 330-Mb
demo are missions from both Red Army and Axis campaigns, giving you
the taste of this authentic historically authentic game.
The
whole DTF Games team has just returned from with a trophy. Our first project
Stalingrad has been nominated for Best Sound and Best Debut
awards, and we managed to get the latter. The mood was tense at the
ceremony, and competition was tough, but now the shiny award is ours
and the team is very proud of it. Thanks everyone! We think we
deserved it.
The inscription in Russian says "Best debut of 2005".
We have a massive site update
today with two articles in the "Behind the Scenes" section. Check
out Documentary Stalingrad, part I, a compilation of
excerpts from archive materials: reports, orders, letters by Red
Army and Wehrmacht soldiers. This is a kind of bitter look "behind
the scenes" of the great battle on river Volga, which focuses on
thoughts and feelings of the people who fought at Stalingrad. Also
up today is an interesting article NKVD Officer on Gen. Paulus: excerpts from the
diary, a rare historical document that describes several days
from the life of captured German general.
Another Victory Day draws near. This day has become a kind of
landmark for our project. On May 9th last year, we congratulated our
visitors with this holiday, while the game was still in development.
Today we would like to congratulate all of you once again, all of
you who's not indifferent to the history of our country, to its
greatest battles and bitterest defeats. We've done what we wanted,
showing people - by means of our game Stalingrad - what the war was
like, how intense the struggle was and what it took to win. We
understand that for many of the westerners, our game became an
eye-opener, a new look at the Battle of Stalingrad.
We would like to commemorate the Great Victory and pray for all
the people who gave their lives for it. It's Victory Day.
One of the first reviews for
Stalingrad just at British site Blitzkrieg-Portal. It
gives our beloved game a whopping 9/10 rating, which is very
gratifying. Reviewer points out that the amount of work needed to
create the game:
"The amount of work that has gone into Stalingrad
to make it as historically accurate as possible is impressive.
Combined with 36 challenging maps, the number of new units and
buildings and the changes to the interface and gameplay,
Stalingrad compares well with Blitzkrieg and its expansions such
as Burning Horizon, Rolling Thunder and Mission: Barbarossa".
We are proud to announce that we have got together a huge (9-part) panoramic screenshot snapped off one of the in-game missions of Stalingrad. It gives a clue on how it would look like in the center of ruined city. Screenshot reveals city architecture, which we carefully reconstructed by archive photos and aerial photography, and also shows key buildings, such as Railway Station, Museum of the Stalingrad defense, the Fountain and Department Store. The screenshot comes with a detailed legend describing key locations
